>>20490865We are living at the end of history. There are no new ideologies competing with capitalism, no rising rivals to democracy and other political systems. These systems have triumphed; as has international capitalism. So far as the majority of people are aware, nothing much more has to be done to confirm or improve the post-Cold War order. We are living in a sort of ‘pax-romana’ of liberal democracy and capitalism, in which history is moving at a very much reduced pace compared to the revolutions and upheavals of the preceding centuries. This seems especially clear now that we live in the age of the truly global electronic consumerism fostered by digital information technology and the mass media.
To ‘break the mold of modernity’ as you say, would require some kinda paradigm shift in the current status-quo. It would necessitate some fundamental changes in the world, and the creation of an alternative to the existing economic and political order. That could come in many different guises but as Covid 19 showed us the modern world is incredibly resilient and I don't see its model collapsing completely just from small inroads by neo-liberal or social democrat politicians.
My opinion is that it will take a wile for those conditions to arrive—if they ever do. I wouldn't rule out the possibility, but something huge would have to happen. Like a sudden breakthrough of miracle technology like space travel, quantum computers or biological immortality that alters the balance of power and introduces a new economic dynamic.
